Canadian GB -ALL SUBJECTS- (Sept 01 - to whenever finished)

Dave that is one GREAT piece of work it looks super  great detail job  on the antenae's.   Your right the Lancaster

would have been easier.  I'm having fun with it, slow progress though waiting for my pe bits and research.

Cheers

Bear

Thanks Anthony,  How's the Arrow coming along?

Well, 3 months late but here she is.  I still want to do some weathering and exhaust staining  but I am out of flat clear and as I use pastels that will have to wait until my order arrives.  For now I am calling it done!!!!!   Yippeeee!!!!   For those of you who have been following the build you know that this has been a long haul.  I think I said something at the beginning about not wanting to do the Hasegawa Lancaster for this build because I wanted to take my time and do it right...  I think that build would have taken a lot less time than this one.  Anyway, I finished adding the last of the radar antenae last night and shot some pics, still needs some clean up and like I said some dull coat to hid some glue marks (CA and I are not good friends yet) but here she is...  Finally!!!!

Looking great Dave.  Nicely done .

Regards,  Rick

Dave That's outstanding work  It looks great  you realy made that airfix (Ooops I used that word) shine.

Cheers

Bear

Look fabulous Dave.  Gotta love these airfix things we've been cranking out!   Ooops, did I say that out loud.?\

Have you figured out where it will go?

Okay, I haven't posted updates for awhile and I had a pretty productive weekend (on modeling anyway) and I'm almost finished so here's a couple of quick shots.  Things were going so well I decided to go for it on the radar.  Sorry about the blurriness on the one but I took them late last night and didn't want to reshoot.  One more weekend should wrap it up. .

Thanks for the comments Dave, Rick, Anthony and Marc.

Anthony that really bites, try to not get dicouraged and just fight through it.  You can make it!

Well I'm back after a week on the west coast and so much catching up.

 JAY That's outstanding work on the Boly you did a super job on the paint scheme.

Anthony  That sucks, back to the old drawing board don't give up.

Cheers

Bear

She looks absolutely stunning Jay!!!

I know first hand how difficult it can be to get a decent build out of Airfix.

Very nice Jay, Excellent work .  Well worth the effort.

Regards,  Rick

The moment you have all been waiting for!

The Bolingbroke Mk. IVT is finally finished, well technically I actually still have to glue the clear turret clear piece on, dry-brush the rear guns, put a slight wash in the wheels and add the antenna wire.  Other wise she looks darned pretty!

Don't look too closely at the wheel wells, you won't find anything as I just added a little bit of extra detail to the landing gear you can see, I didn't feel like going through all the effort of creating wheel wells like I did for my Beaufighter.  Besides, I'm not going to have the model displayed upside down anyway.  enough ramblings, have a gander...

So what do you think for a crappy Airfix! I'm quite happy with it, you just don't see many in this scheme out there.

Sounds great Jay! I'm really looking forward to the pics.

As for myself I managed to get all the masking off the Sunderland.  No bleeding !  I think it took longer to get all the tape off those little round windows than it did to put them on.  I'm half way done painting the engines and props.  I might just call it quits after that and screw the antenae and rigging (or leave them for another day).

She looks...beautiful...      ssnnifff...

I just have to get the turret put together and a few little touch ups here and there and she's done!  I think Wednesday the boly will be revealed, after almost four months she'll be finished!  yeehaw!

Dave Looks great, you did a super job considering you puttyed and sanded your fingers to the bone

Cheers

Bear

Dave,  Looking better all the time .

Regards,  Rick

Decals are on!

Looking great Dave.  Nice paint job.

Regards,  Rick

Bear: Thanks, but I'll have to convert the garage into a hanger before I attempt that dio

Jay:  I had a hard time finding photos of the upper surfaces of the Sunderland (probably due to its size), the few that I did find were of a different colour scheme.  I ended up using one of the Humbrol colours specified in the airfix instructions which was the extra dark sea gray (123) which is actually that brownish/green colour and instead of the humbrol green I used Model Master RAF dark green.  It seems to match the photos that I have seen of the upper colours as the colours are so close you can barely distinguish a camo pattern in the black and white photos.